Extendible counter assembly



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EXTENDABLE COUNTER ASSEMBLY Filed Aug. 11, 1949 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Raymond A.Thompson INVENTOR BY aGZmt A ORNEY Patented Nov. 28, 1950 EXTENDIBLE COUNTER ASSEMBLY Raymond A. Thompson, East Tawas, Mich., as-

signor to Anderson Coach Company,

East

Tawas, Mich., a corporation of Michigan Application August 11, 1949, Serial No. 109,743

4 Claims. 1

The present invention relates broadly to counters, and in its specific phases to a kitchen counter which is readily expansible.

The construction and use of house trailers requires that they be designed to provide maximum useability of the relatively small space available. In other words, if the kitchen and dining space are made large, then the living space is very much cramped. This raises the problem of how to make the kitchen and dining space compact when the living space is required to be large, and at the same time to make it possible for the living space to be made smaller when the kitchen and dining space is required to be larger. This in turn requires that a considerable portion of the house trailer interior be made capable of double use over a considerable area.

It was a recognition of this problem, as well as a knowledge that there has been no wholly satisfactory solution for same, which lead to the conception and development of the present invenassembly, commonly known as table slides, one

end of which is anchored to the counter.

Another object is to provide a compact counter assembly which can be used as such and yet which can be greatly expanded when desired.

Another object is to provide an expansible counter which is easy to construct and install, Al

side and with a separable end portion of said ledge having anchored to its underfacea suit+ able supporting leg and telescoping slide assembly wherein such ledge portion is extensible in varying amount for the insertion of one or more table leaves, the leg carrying ledge portion acting as the end member of the extension, with the assembly being easy to manipulate, of sturdy con- 'struction, compact when folded, and having no complicated parts.

Further objects and advantages of the inven tion will appear as a description proceeds.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, the invention, then, consists of the means hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims, the annexed drawings and the following description setting trated in Figure 2, but with the table leaves removed to show the telescoping table slides.

Referring more particularly to Figures 1 and 3 of the drawings, it will benoted that the counter l is provided with an undercut bottom portion 2 known as a kick space and that the top-3 of the counter is provided with an over-hanging ledge 4 at least on one side. The counter as thus constructed, has a considerable amount of work space on its top while the over-hanging ledge portion makes it convenient to'use the top of the "counter as a small dining table, which in a house trailer would normally be suited for the use of two persons.

The right hand edge of this counter as viewed in Figure 4, preferably abuts the side wall 5 of the house trailer (not shown) and is preferably anchored in that position. The length of this counter under those conditions is preferably about twice the width of a narrow table. At the free end of the counter the ledge is cut to form a movable member 6 which is rigidly mounted. by means of braces l or the like, on a leg member 8 adapted to rest against the face of counter I when the assembly is in collapsed position as shown in Figure 1. At the lower end of leg member 8 is a foot member 9 adapted, when the assembly is folded, to fit into the kick space at the front edge of the counter while acting to stabilize leg 8.

The movable portionfi of the counter is anchored on the end of a telescoping slide assembly 10 with the other end of said assembly anchored tothe counter I so thatjmembers 6 can be extended out as shown in Figure 4 where is forms the end leaf of the counter extension. The telescoping slide assembly I!) is of standard well known construction which permits either partial oi' full extension as shown. With movable mem ber 6 extended as shown inFigure 4, it is in position to have leaves l5, Figure 2, placed on the telescoping slide assembly IE3, and those leaves in turn will be provided with standard well. known means (not shown) at their adjacent edges for releasably fastening them, together.

The front of the counter is provided with a 

